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Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been conferred the prestigious Gandhi Peace Prize 2020 posthumously. This has come just days before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to visit Bangladesh to take part in his birth centenary celebrations. Meanwhile, two fighter jets have collided in Taiwan. This is third crash in past six months. Read this and more in our Top 10 World News
The award, instituted in 1995, has been awarded posthumously for the first time accordingly to the ministry of culture
On Friday, the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Putin's offer of talks remained open and that Putin could do any time that was convenient for Biden, though the offer would not stay on the table indefinitely.
Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri confirmed the talks will take place
Paris has spearheaded international efforts to rescue the former French protectorate from its deepest crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war, but after seven months has failed so far to persuade squabbling politicians to adopt a reform roadmap or form a new government to unlock international aid
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EU's foreign policy chief said that Turkey's exit sent a wrong message to the world
Taiwan's air force said two air force F-5E fighters, each with one pilot aboard, crashed into the sea off the island's southeastern coast after they apparently collided in mid-air during a training mission